Last weekend was my daughter’s 20th birthday so I spent some time hanging out with her as we went shopping for a new computer (her 6 year old laptop was on its last legs). She brought up a new show on Netflix that had really impressed her and encouraged me to watch it. It’s a true-crime limited series called The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping. There are just three episodes, about an hour long each.
I finished watching it last night and The Program really does tell a remarkable story about a girl named Katherine Kubler who at age 15 got in trouble for drinking a Mike’s Hard Lemonade at a private high school she was attending. Instead of a minor suspension, her father and stepmother decided she needed some tough love and in 2004 sent her to a boarding school in New York called Ivy Ridge Academy. At the time, it was marketed to parents as a place that could reform troubled teens…
